I'd say if you want to build web-backend type services in Rust right now, you'd do alright. Hyper, mio, diesel, etc. are all pretty good. I do think (and hope)

I'd say if you want to build web-backend type services in Rust right now, you'd do alright. Hyper, mio, diesel, etc. are all pretty good. I do think (and hope) that things will be much more compelling in a year once tokio and its library ecosystem have matured. Tokio's abstractions seem very compelling.